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The actor was joined by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman and Christopher Nolan on stage at the annual event on Sunday.

During the MTV Movie Awards, there was plenty of excitement for the new footage from The Dark Knight Rises, but no one expected it to become an emotional moment when a retrospective montage was shown before the new clip.

Stars Christian Bale, Gary Oldman and Joseph Gordon-Levitt took the stage to introduce a video that traced the history of the superhero through director Christopher Nolan’s Batman series.

“This summer, the story comes to an end,” Gordon-Levitt said during the introduction.

The first clip was a montage of moments from Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, including several images of the late Heath Ledger as The Joker. The inclusion of Ledger sparked an emotional response from Bale.

"It's great to remember Heath,” Bale said, his voice wavering, when the clip was done.

Bale then went on to introduce Nolan, who took the stage to talk about the new clip from The Dark Night Rises.

"Every great story demands a great ending," he told the crowd at Universal City’s Gibson Amphitheatre.